The Oxford Book of War PoetryJon Stallworthy Oxford University Press, 1984 - 358 pages There can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war. The 250 poems included in this acclaimed anthology span centuries of human conflict - from David's lament for Saul and Jonathan, and Homer's Iliad, to the finest poems of the Second World War, Vietnam, Northern Ireland, and El Salvador, as well as the chilling visions of the 'Next War'. Reflecting the feelings of authors as diverse as Virgil, Daniel Defoe, Emily Dickinson, and Adrian Mitchell, they reveal a great shift in social awareness from man's early celebratory war-songs to the more recent anti-war attitudes of poets responding to 'man's inhumanity to man', and to women and children. Book jacket. |
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... give way . The dogs and kites will rip your body . His will lie in honour when the Achaeans give him funeral . ' Hector , barely whispering , replied : ' I beg you by your soul and by your parents , do not let the dogs feed on me in ...
... give way . The dogs and kites will rip your body . His will lie in honour when the Achaeans give him funeral . ' Hector , barely whispering , replied : ' I beg you by your soul and by your parents , do not let the dogs feed on me in ...
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... gives , Our soldiers should remain withouten harms : And sooth to say , these were no false alarms , For why ? they were within twelve days discharged , And sent away from prison ... give a guess , 21 Then would I say it was for to espy 47.
... gives , Our soldiers should remain withouten harms : And sooth to say , these were no false alarms , For why ? they were within twelve days discharged , And sent away from prison ... give a guess , 21 Then would I say it was for to espy 47.
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... give and take , What should be and what not While those dead men are loitering there To stir the boiling pot ? You say that we should still the land Till Germany's overcome ; But who is there to argue that Now Pearse is deaf and dumb ...
... give and take , What should be and what not While those dead men are loitering there To stir the boiling pot ? You say that we should still the land Till Germany's overcome ; But who is there to argue that Now Pearse is deaf and dumb ...
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arms army battle blood blow brave breath Byrhtnoth Carentan cloud cold Collected Poems cried dark dead dear death died dream drum E. E. Cummings earth eyes Faber face fall father fear fell field fight fire flags flowers fought glory grass grave green guns hand head hear heard heart Heaven honour ISAAC ROSENBERG JAMES DICKEY JON STALLWORTHY knew land Lars Porsena light live look Lord LOUIS SIMPSON morning never night o'er pain peace rain Reprinted by permission Robert Lowell round RUDYARD KIPLING Rustum sand shield ship SIDNEY KEYES silent sing slain sleep smile snow soldiers soul spear stars stone stood sword tears thee THOMAS HARDY thou Tommy turned victory W. B. YEATS W. H. AUDEN walk watch WILFRED OWEN wind wounded young